Description
The Jalapeno is the most common of the hot chili peppers. Pistol River Pepper People (Pistol River), and Lehne Farms LLC (Roseburg) both grow these using organic practices; the farms offering them on any given week are noted above. Jalapenos can be red or green…
Compared to other chilies, the Jalapeño Pepper varies from mild to hot depending on cultivation and preparation, and can have from a few thousand to over 10,000 Scoville heat units. (For comparison, the Habanero is over 100,000 Scoville heat units). The number of scars on the pepper (which appear as small brown lines, called ‘corking’) has a positive correlation with how hot these peppers are: growing conditions which increase the level of heat also cause the pepper to form scars. In other words, the more scars, the hotter the pepper!
